Notable Python Projects

Every week a multitude of open python projects, frameworks and scripts join the ranks of the python community.

Today we’d like to take a moment to highlight some of the projects that caught our eye over the past few weeks. Feel free to suggest any you think are note worthy in the comments. As is with most new open source software there are many issues and improvements that need to be made. If you have the time to report bugs found to the maintainers or fix them yourself, the community would be forever greatful.

Capture and inject traffic on LAN. Individually arpspoofs the target box, router and DNS server if necessary. Does not poison anyone else on the network. Displays most of the interesting bits of their traffic and can inject custom html into pages they visit. Cleans up after itself.

Those that are resistent to virtualenv and are still looking for a solution to manage the python version can look to Pyenv. Pyenv lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python. It’s simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically, and automatically separated into sections. It provides a command line utility, Python library, and Kate plugin to quickly sort all your imports.

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